Advantages and Characteristics of Linhuan Teahouse

Like teahouses in other parts of the country, Linhuan Teahouse not only has the characteristics of ordinary teahouses, but also contains its own unique advantages and distinctive features.

Take home as a store. The biggest feature of Linhuan Old Teahouse is that it takes home as its shop. Linhuan Town is located on the north bank of Huihe River. Most of the old teahouses face the water and the street, and most of them are based on their homes.

Unique water quality. As the saying goes, "tea is not as good as water." In Tianshui, well water, river water, lake water, spring water and tea have a special liking for spring water, and the spring water in Linhuan is the most suitable for making tea. The four Gu Quan at Linhuan Gate have their own characteristics. They are Huilongquan, Zhu Jin Spring, Mayin Spring and Longxu Spring, which are arranged along the ┗ shape of Huihe River. Linhuan's unique Gu Quan resources are one of the advantages of Linhuan Teahouse's popularity in all directions. During the period of 1998, hydrologists made a special inspection and identification of Linhuan spring water, and confirmed that Linhuan spring water contains 23 kinds of minerals beneficial to human body. These minerals activate and dredge meridians, promote human metabolism, and thus have various effects on human health. In addition, the tension of Linhuan spring water is extremely strong, and the brewed tea is higher than the edge of the cup without overflowing. Linhuan Huilong water is hard water and a cup of tea. It is about 1 2 heavier than that made with ordinary blisters.

Unique tea material. The tea in Linhuan Teahouse has distinct characteristics and uniqueness, and the uniqueness of tea is the essence of "tea" in Linhuan Teahouse. Linhuan does not produce tea locally, and the tea used in Linhuan Teahouse is not ordinary tea, but tea stems specially taken from Lu 'an, 200 miles away. Linhuan people call this cheap tea stalk a black tea stick. Strangely, there are very few people who use this kind of big tea in Lu 'an, and there are very few people who use big tea in other places. The most amazing thing is that this kind of tea stalk is soaked in Linhuan spring water, which is misty, bright and fragrant, sweet at the entrance and endless in aftertaste. But once this kind of tea stem is brought out of Linhuan and brewed with water from other places, it will never have such a good taste, comfortable feeling and strange effect. Obviously, the great tea in Lu 'an and the ancient spring water in Linhuan have reached an irreplaceable perfect combination. Drinking this big tea often has the peculiar effects of promoting fluid production in spring, relieving summer heat in summer, refreshing in autumn and warming up in winter, and also has the effect of relieving alcoholism. Another feature of Linhuan great tea is that you don't feel bloated after drinking too much, no matter how much you drink. Drinking before meals can stimulate appetite, drinking after meals can help digestion, drinking at leisure can soothe the nerves and clear the heart, drinking after fatigue can relieve fatigue and refresh the mind, drinking all the year round can prolong life, and drinking once can quench thirst. Earlier, in addition to black tea sticks, tea houses also used bran (sorghum straw skin) and mulberry leaves to make tea material.

Suzhou Chronicle of Qing Dynasty recorded a story: Linhuan had a rich man. When he was old, he took an official's son to other places. In his later years, the rich man was often bored, weak and always exhausted. He had no mind to do anything and no appetite to eat. One day, I suddenly remembered Linhuan Spring, so I asked a boatman who went to Linhuan Trade to bring the spring. At that time, the Huihe River rose, and the boatman arrived at Linhuan Wharf, so he had to stay in the east of the pier bridge and could not reach Huilongshui. The boatman loaded a can of Huan River on the spot and took it back. The rich ordered people to boil water to make tea. The rich man was used to Linhuan's return to Longquan. He just took a sip and found that the water was not Longxu Spring. He ordered the boatman to be called and severely punished him. Later, the rich man often asked the boatman to bring Linhuan spring water. Members often drink Linhuan spring water, and when they are in their eighties, they are still hale and hearty, deaf and blind, and walk without crutches.

Unique tea drinker. Linhuan Teahouse has a wide variety of customers. Those hawker friends who pull carts and carry loads often stop here to catch their breath, drink a bowl of tea and smoke a pack of cigarettes. Otherwise, take out Wowotou and pickles and have tea for lunch. However, tea drinkers are mostly local people of some age groups, and the elderly in their sixties and seventies account for a large part of tea drinkers. These tea drinkers have wrinkled faces and thick knuckles, and they smoke inferior cigarettes. They set out from their home early in the morning, twenty or thirty miles away from the teahouse, and walked slowly and unhurriedly, greeting or joking with acquaintances they met on the road from time to time, and then went their separate ways. When you come to the teahouse, you slowly reach out your hand, take out a cloth bag or paper bag from the depths of your trouser pocket, hold it in front of your eyes, uncover it layer by layer, find out the old flat angle money or wool ticket, carefully count out 30 cents and hand it to the teahouse owner. The owner of the teahouse brought a teapot and a small cup, grabbed a handful of tea stalks from the plastic bag lying on the ground, put them in the teapot, lifted an aluminum pot filled with boiling water from the raging fire, poured water into the teapot for brewing, then picked up the teapot, picked up the small cup and sent it to the table or counter selected by the tea drinker. Tea drinkers began to drink slowly and savor. In this way, the long low table placed at the door is full every day. There is a teapot and a small teacup in front of everyone, slowly enjoying the reddish-brown tea fragrance. They are slow, expressionless and unresponsive. They turn a blind eye to photographers and journalists who collect and edit landscapes and are indifferent to everything around them. There is a kind of tea drinker, who loves tea like life and spends all day in the teahouse. He is called "Chazi" by the locals. He waited at the door before the teahouse opened in the morning, rushed in as soon as the teahouse opened, and reluctantly left at night when the teahouse closed, taking a pot home when he left. Unique background. Good tea attracts thousands of farmers with its unique charm. The reason is not only because of its low price, but also because of the cultural accumulation of the old teahouse for hundreds of years: the thick and simple local culture has continued the history of big tea. Linhuan people drink tea not only to quench their thirst, but also as a way of life and cultural perception. The air is filled with the choking smell of pharynx leaves, mixed with tea fragrance. It tastes strange to eat together. It is this strange smell in the teahouse that is the most intimate smell for old tea drinkers. Without it, they will feel that life is boring and boring. These old people can drink tea everywhere, but they only like to come to teahouses, mainly to enjoy an atmosphere, a taste and a taste. They value the teahouse, and these are the most important things. Most of them, more than ten years or even decades, came early in the morning and went back after dark. The owners of these old teahouses also know that it is more important than profit to create a folk atmosphere and psychological space of tea culture. As an old teahouse, it is not only a place for drinking tea, but also an indispensable part of the spiritual life of many old tea drinkers. There is a tea drinker in his 70 s who runs several kilometers to the teahouse every day to soak. Although the price of tea and coal has risen sharply, the profit of opening a teahouse is actually not much, but the owner of a teahouse like Zhou Zhitian of Jianghuai Teahouse, who was born and raised in Sri Lanka, believes that family ties should never be weakened because of a little self-interest. Most Linhuan teahouse owners stick to this point-they would rather earn less than anything, and take care of their neighbors.

Tea is cheap. The price of tea in the old teahouse is low, so you can soak in the teahouse at any time with very little money. When the tea drinker enters the teahouse, he first greets the teahouse owner: "A pot of tea!" " "or" half a pot of tea! "The teahouse owner sent a big ceramic teapot and two small handles to the tea drinker who wanted a pot of tea. Send a small ceramic teapot and a small teacup to the tea drinker who wants half a pot of tea. The price of a pot of tea is one word in the Ming Dynasty, one copper coin in the Qing Dynasty, two copper coins in the Republic of China, fifty cents in the fifties, ten cents in the sixties, ten cents in the seventies, twenty cents in the eighties and three cents in the nineties. People who drink tea pay once, and after drinking, the careful teahouse owner will fill it for you immediately. Drink as much tea as you want, and don't charge a penny.